Gabriel Lippmann Quotes

The art is long, life is short.

I've been a long time coming, and I'll be a long time gone. You've got your whole life to do something, and that's not very long.

I feel like you only have so much time to make stuff. I'm definitely aware of that. I'm also excited about it.

I just don't want to watch TV, and I know that life is short. I feel like I couldn't do all the things I wanted to do if I had several lifetimes to do them in.

Life is short, the art long.

Life is short and the older you get, the more you feel it. Indeed, the shorter it is. People lose their capacity to walk, run, travel, think, and experience life. I realise how important it is to use the time I have.

You only live a short time... and you are dead a long time.

People always say life is short. I've never been convinced of that - mine seems to have a tendency to go on and on.

Talk when you talk, walk when you walk, and die when you die.

Woody Allen has a wonderful line: 'Today I'm a star. What will I be tomorrow? A black hole?' That's very important to know - that you have the moment, then you lose the moment. You have to see your chances, you have to take them, and you also have to see when you don't have chances to take.

The life so short, the craft so long to learn.

Time is short, life is short, there's a lot to know. So I skip the entertainers in the newspaper now. I just haven't got time.

Time is long but life is short.

I don't spend a lot of time contending with the fact that time is not endless.

I don't look ahead to the future as a vast, endless one. I've begun to feel the calendar pages turning.

Life is short, and, once somebody is gone, they're gone.

Death is always a reality, and life is incredibly short.

For many of us, we set out thinking there will be time in the future, and then suddenly we find ourselves at a moment when we have to acknowledge that the future isn't infinite.

If I've learned anything in the last seven or eight years it's that my career flies by the seat of my pants and that every time I'm booked for something, I'm ill, and anything - like a TV opportunity - I treat as my last ever one because it's maybe my swansong.

Got so much to say, such little time.

Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.

This is your life and its ending one moment at a time.

Stop and consider! life is but a day

Life is but sighs; and, when they cease, 'tis over.